1000 telephone disconnected for the last 10 days.
CHITRAL: Some 1000 telephone lines of PTCL has been damaged by Communication & Works department (C &W) during construction of By pass road. A cable consisting on 700 lines has been damaged last month as a result PTCL faced 2 million of lost and 700 consumers faced great hardships due to disconnecting of their telephone line. Now once again C&W damaged main cable of PTCL as a result telephone lines of Wapda (Pesco), airport, Met. Office, Civil Aviation, colleges, schools, government and non governmental organizations as well as domestics consumers are totally deprived from telephone facility for the last 10 days. General Manager Northern Telecommunication Region Muhammad Khalid deputed divisional Engineer Gul Zamin who visited the spot near Chew bridge and submitted an appeal before the court of justice to direct local police for lodging FIR against the concerned person ( C&W) department. Assistant business Manager Bakht Baidar alleged that I have sent so many applications to local police but they deny to lodge any FIR in this case. Social and political circle of Chitral have demanded from high ups of PTCL for restoring these hundred of telephone lines as well as taking action against Executive Engineer C &W for their negligence and damaging national property.
2 books in Khowar poetry inaugurated.
2 more books in Khowar (Chitrali language) were inaugurated in Chitral. First book consisting on old folk songs of Chitral was written by Gul Nawaz Khaki Sorank. The second book Hijro che Wisal of Khowar poetry was written by Ilawuddin Urfi. Inauguration ceremony was held in town hall Chitral. Prominent educationist and principal retired Mukaram Shah was chief guest on the occasion while president of Unjumani Tariqi Khowar Maulana Naqeebullah Razi was presiding over the event. The ceremony was started with the recitation from the Holy Quran by Ziauddin. The speakers presented their papers and comments on these books and highly appreciated their efforts for writing books in Khowar hence they criticized on using words from some other languages and recommended for calling meeting of Unjumani Taraqi Khowar for reforming and corrections of these errors. Those who presented their paper were Maula Nigah Niga, Gul Murad, Saleh Wali Azad, Zafarullah Parwaz, Muhammad Sharif Urooj, Afzalullah Afzal, Sadiqullah Sadiq, Ilauddin Urfi, Gul Nawaz Khaki, Mukaram Shah and Naqeebullah Razi. Some speakers also criticized on Soorank book written by Gul Nawaz Khaki. A large number of people and intellectual attended the inauguration ceremony of these two books.
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